Clean Noida mobile app launched

NOIDA: Noida Authority on Wednesday formally launched a mobile application in its effort to keep city environs clean and pollution free. Launched by Chairperson and CEO Rama Raman, the citizen focused App literally places the power of keeping Noida clean in the palm of the citizens’ hands.

According to officials, the specialized app is integrated with the well-used ‘Noida Citizen Charter’, an online citizen charter with 187 services across 12 departments that became operational in Noida in August 2014. “The aim behind launching the citizen-friendly App is to promote a ‘clean city’ through technology and to connect people to the government," said Raman. “The new ‘Clean Noida’ app will encourage peoples’ involvement in taking up cleanliness activities in the city, which is the need of the hour,” he added.

Till now the application was running on trials and can be downloaded through ‘google play store’. “After downloading the app, citizen will be required to provide name, contact number for login to the app. Thereafter, citizens will have to select the cleanliness issue from a dropdown menu which includes the area that needs to be cleaned, which could be a park, road, construction site, drain, etc,” explained Satish Kumar, CEO of Bangalore-based Suparna Systems, which has developed the app. “After complaint, citizen will get an acknowledgement number. The complaint can be tracked on mobile app as well as on Noida Citizen Charter portal,” he said.

“With the App, it will be possible to report one’s complaints, and send feedback about a cleanliness issue in the form of a picture message, with a text when needed. The application, which is GPS-enabled will also automatically detect the location of the problem issue or when citizens click a picture,” he said adding it will also track the follow-up action by sanitation and other workers of the Authority.